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On the Ezra Klein Show, Huang was presented with a Chinese study of 26,000 students showing that AI use correlated with declining long-term exam performance and eroded basic math skills like long division and multiplication tables. When asked whether this cognitive decline matters, Huang did not offer reassurance and appeared to accept the tradeoff as acceptable.
In an interview with The New York Times' Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that if AI labs cannot contain their experiments and those experiments risk harming the world, the labs should be shut down. He argued the potential civil and criminal liabilities from uncontained AI testing would be too great for society to bear.
In an interview on The Ezra Klein Show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI will require heavy fossil fuel use in the near term because renewable energy capacity is insufficient, likening the resulting pain to surgery necessary to save a patient. He also criticized the US for not building enough fossil fuel plants to meet AI's energy demands.
A 3D artist bought what they thought was an Asus 30th-anniversary edition RTX 5090 from a used marketplace, only to discover it carried Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's autograph instead. Rather than use the card, they sold it, and it is now consigned to Bonhams auction house, with bidding scheduled for Oct. 4-14, 2026 and an estimate of $10,000-$15,000.
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said slowing down AI development is unrealistic and downplayed fears that AI poses an extinction-level threat to humanity, calling that risk extremely small. His stance was noted as aligning closely with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's view, which contrasts with more cautious warnings from the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS he sees no chance of a catastrophic AI scenario unfolding by 2030, calling some AI industry leaders' warnings irresponsible and unnecessarily frightening to the public. He suggested that frontier AI labs pushing for new regulations may be doing so to sidestep accountability under existing laws.
Responding to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's claim that AI has more than a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News there is 'zero chance' AI will end the world by 2030. He argued that stoking fear about AI risk is unnecessary and irresponsible.
TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts examined Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's newly published proposal urging the industry to slow AI development pace, contrasting it with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's dismissal of AI backlash concerns as overblown, echoing President Trump's stance against regulation. Podcast host Sean O'Kane expressed skepticism that Amodei's plan contains enough concrete detail to actually change corporate behavior, despite apparent support from figures including Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
In a CBS Sunday Morning interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said there is a '0% chance' AI will end the world and called warnings from other tech leaders about AI risk 'irresponsible' and unscientific. He rejected calls from Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman to slow AI development, and said no new laws or guidelines are needed despite reported incidents of AI models bypassing safeguards.
On this date in 2018, Nvidia released the GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, the first consumer GPUs built on the Turing architecture with dedicated hardware for real-time ray tracing. CEO Jensen Huang touted the launch as ushering in a new era of graphical realism, though the mainstream RTX 2070 didn't arrive until October and few games initially supported the new capability. The RTX 2080 outperformed the previous-generation GTX 1080 Ti but launched at a higher price of $799 for the Founders Edition.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as President Trump's closest corporate ally in shaping AI policy, with Trump publicly dismissing safety concerns as a 'hoax' during a call to Huang at the All-In Summit. Huang is set to join Trump's state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping, underscoring his growing access inside the administration. Nvidia's revenue has ballooned to $215 billion as its chips power the AI systems built by OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a CBS interview there is a '0% chance' AI will destroy humanity by 2030, dismissing fears raised by Anthropic's former alignment lead Evan Hubinger, who put the odds above 10% within a decade. Huang argued such warnings serve political or attention-seeking motives rather than genuine risk assessment, and said AI developers can manage safety without added government regulation.